Our review of La Mesias, on arte.tv, or the stigmata of despair

Built back and forth over three decades – the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s, this Spanish series reconstructs piece by piece the trajectory of Enric (Roger Casamajor) and his sister Irene (Macarena Garcia), in their forties, undermined by loneliness , the questions left unanswered and the ravages of a massacred childhood. How, as children, they grew up faster than their mother, a woman too young, too beautiful, too party-loving, too loving and too decrepit, who sold her body to feed them. Overcome by an equally absurd desire for redemption, this progenitor went from firecracker-smoking prostitute to leader of a religious sect dedicated to the Virgin… and extraterrestrials.

« This story is not autobiographical in the true sense of the term. However, it is inspired by our childhoods and our common experiences, to which are added anecdotes gleaned here and there, our vision of a downgraded Spain, the tenacious beliefs that nourish it,…